Shara Lessley
Poet, essayist, lover of insects & trees | 📚: The Explosive Expert's Wife, Two-Headed Nightingale, The Poem's Country: Place & Poetic Practice (co-edited w/Bruce Snider) | CNF Ed: West Branch | Consulting Ed: Acre Books | Mentor / 🐾 & human mama | 🏳️🌈
@medhawrites.bsky.social
Poet, editor and translator between Edinburgh, London and Delhi. TEDx speaker, New Writer Awardee ‘23 (Scottish Book Trust). Ed-at-large at Pen and Anvil Press, MA. My book ‘Afterbody’ is out through Blue Diode Press, Edinburgh, very soon.
@frogandtoadbot.bsky.social
Cozy random passages from Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad books. Posts auto-delete.
@angiemccullagh.bsky.social
Work in: The Sun Magazine, Colorado Review, XRay Lit Mag, The Independent, Wired, HuffPost, Writer's Digest, The Belladonna, Slackjaw, One Story Conf '23. she/her, BLM https://angiemccullagh.weebly.com/
@demisty.bsky.social
Mother of twins, wife of dude, writer of stuff, prof. of student, PhD. Website at demistybellinger.com. Story collection All Daughters Are Awesome Everywhere (U-Nebraska Press: Zero Street Fiction: https://tinyurl.com/prdacfrt)
@katmoore.bsky.social
PhD. Writer. Dweller at Cat Palace. Essays in: Brevity, Image, Creative Nonfiction, Diagram, Passages North, Salt Hill and more. Bread Loaf Scholar ‘21. Tin House Winter Workshop ‘22. she/her katmoorewriter.com
@jenniferlunden.bsky.social
Author of AMERICAN BREAKDOWN: Our Ailing Nation, My Body's Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life. She/her.
@darylfarmer.bsky.social
Writer, poet, bicyclist. Gentle spirit, but capable occasional mayhem. Author of BICYCLNG BEYOND THE DIVIDE and WHERE WE LAND. Creative writing Prof at U of Alaska Fairbanks.
@jaquiradiaz.bsky.social
Author of Ordinary Girls, Whiting Award winner. THIS IS THE ONLY KINGDOM (a novel) dropping October 2025. Boricua en la luna.
@smartishpace.bsky.social
Poetry magazine that publishes poems & translations, & hosts The HOT L Poets Series; est. 1998 by editor Stephen Reichert. Baltimore, MD. Smartishpace.com
@lauralminor.bsky.social
2024 Silver Medal Florida Book Awards, Poetry 🥈 Book 2: Bright Life, Animal Heart, winner of the 2023 Minds on Fire Open Book Prize, out now!, conduit.org Book 1: Flowers as Mind Control, winner of The 2020 John Ciardi Prize, at uapress.com
@prairie-schooner.bsky.social
Literary Journal of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 95+ years of quality poetry, fiction, nonfiction, essays, & reviews. Posts by staff & interns https://prairieschooner.unl.edu
@armanchowdhury.bsky.social
Writer 🇧🇩 2023 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Finalist. Associate Fiction Editor, West Branch magazine. Notre Dame MFA ‘23. Tin House ‘22. Loft literary Fellow ´21. 📍South Bend, IN | armanchowdhury.com
@josephscapellato.bsky.social
THE MADE-UP MAN (2019), BIG LONESOME (2017). Of Italian (Sicilian) & Polish immigrants to Chicago. West Branch lit mag, Stadler Center for Poetry and Literary Arts, StoryStudio Chicago.
@majalukic.bsky.social
Poet. Warren Wilson MFA. Yugoslav, orange wine fanatic, Knausgaard scholar. Brooklyn, NY.
@melaniemccabe.bsky.social
Writer. Poet. Author of a memoir, His Other Life: Searching For My Father, His First Wife, and Tennessee Williams (University of New Orleans Press, 2017). Also three books of poetry, most recently The Night Divers (Terrapin Books, 2022.)
@alexmlwrites.bsky.social
THE FACT OF A BODY: A Murder & A Memoir / US Artists & NEA fellow / work in Best Amer Essays, NYTimes, Harper’s, Agni, etc / currently writing a trans 🏳️⚧️ work of haunted 👻 nonfiction, BOTH & NEITHER, forthcoming from Doubleday / Vancouver, BC, Canada
@shanders.bsky.social
THE GREAT WHEREVER (forthcoming from Holt, summer ‘26); COMPANY, 2024 winner of the L.A.Times Book Prizes Award for First Fiction: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/company. Mom, twin mom, lawyer, Silver Springer. She/her
@mmccullybrown.bsky.social
Poet. Essayist. Educator. "Places I've Taken My Body" & "The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded" Co-author "In the Field Between Us" w Susannah Nevison. Editor in Chief @ Image Journal. http://mollymccullybrown.com
@michellebrpoet.bsky.social
poet, mama, professor • Why Can’t It Be Tenderness (U of Wisconsin Press)
@santisugi.bsky.social
Writer, reader, and teacher of poetry, fiction, Asian American/Asian diasporic literature, and sound. CalArts, formerly UST. Books: Tula (2016), Small Wars Manual (2025) Husband and dad with (sorry) dad jokes. https://t.co/U0opNqf5yO
@geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social
Poet, Essayist, Editor-in-Chief of Seneca Review & SR Books, Associate Prof. at Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Books: A Grain of Sand in Lambeth (forthcoming 2025, U of Nevada Press) and Appendices Pulled from a Study on Light (2018). Wm Blake devotee.
@tylermpoetry.bsky.social
City dweller who loves the desert. Recent books: The Bomb Cloud (@unboundedition.bsky.social #memoir) and Poetry Studio (@uakronpress.bsky.social #poetry #craft). 📚☀️Brooklyn.
@nhannahjones.bsky.social
TIPS: Email me at nhannahjones@nytimes.com or send a Signal nhannahjones.67 //Founder Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard Univ// Staff writer at NYT Mag// Creator #1619Project// History blerd//Smart and Thuggish
@hels.bsky.social
“Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches” New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication 🍉
@k-gray.bsky.social
Author of Instructions for An Animal Body (Moon Tide), Mating Calls //of the// Specter (Tusculum Review Chapbook Prize). Work in Witness, Passages North, Southern Humanities, Permafrost, Pithead Chapel, Heavy Feather, Rust+Moth, etc. writekgray.com
@hannahnahar.bsky.social
poet & writer & elsewhere poems in West Branch, Best New Poets, Mississippi Review, Salt Hill, & other places hannahnahar.com/writing
@mbarrettwriter.bsky.social
Writer. Stories in: Threepenny Review, The Sun, TriQuarterly, Cincinnati Review's miCRo series, Baltimore Review, SmokeLong, The Forge, Cutleaf, Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions. Soon: West Branch, Wigleaf https://mbarrettwriter.wixsite.com/stories
@westbranchmagazine.bsky.social
Thrice annual magazine of poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews published by the Stadler Center at Bucknell University. linktr.ee/westbranch
@zoeruiz.bsky.social
Writer. Editor. Creative coach. -Writing in The Los Angeles Times, Joyland, The Millions, The Rumpus, and more. -Edited multiple books for Viet Thanh Nguyen and Norton Books. -Interested in creativity, depth psychology, and feminisms.
@ebradfield.bsky.social
Just looking.... Writer. Naturalist. Seeker. Teacher. "SOFAR: Poems" forthcoming Aug, 2025 from Persea. www.ebradfield.com Co-creator of “Cascadia Field Guide” - www.cascadiafieldguide.com . Editor of Broadsided (collab via/lit journal) www.broadsided.org
@acchiles.bsky.social
Adam Chiles is the author of Bluff (Measure Press, 2024). His work has appeared in numerous journals including Copper Nickel, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, The Threepenny Review and Willow Springs. Chiles is professor of English and creative writing at North
@letunova.bsky.social
stories in Cincinnati Review, The Kenyon Review, AGNI, and more https://karolinaletunova.com/ Free 🇺🇦
@aminrowyda.bsky.social
Poet. NYC. Instagram: @aminrowyda We go Wandering at Night and are Consumed by Fire @sidekickbooks Desert Sunflowers @flippedeye Poems in New England Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, swamp pink etc.
@christianteresi.bsky.social
Author of 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙈𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙢 (available from @redhenpress.bsky.social). Poet, translator. Arts/education/cultural advocate.
@danalevinpoet.bsky.social
5 books of poetry, Copper Canyon Press. Brain disturber at Maryville U in St. Louis, Bennington Writing Seminars, and a location near you. Essaying, book forthcoming with (news soon)
@sandrabeasley.bsky.social
Author of four poetry collections (most recently Made to Explode, published by W. W. Norton in 2021) and a disability memoir (Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life). Freelancer, teacher, poetry editor for Blair, & DC resident.
@colinpope.bsky.social
Poet-ish. Prayer Book for the New Heretic (NYQ Books). Why I Didn't Go to Your Funeral (Tolsun). Asst Dir of CW at Northwestern. Editor at RHINO. Believer in ironic punishments.
@jackiefeldman.bsky.social
Executive Director @ZygotePress | Writer | Dog Whisperer | immigrant from Kyiv, Ukraine | Words: @PitheadChapel @NovelNoctule @coffin_bell She/Her
@grantclauser.bsky.social
Poet | Teacher | Editor | Walker | Pennsylvanian | Plant-based Temporary Shelters (2025) Muddy Dragon on the Road to Heaven (2020) Teaches at Rosemont College Montgomery County Poet Laureate 2010 grantclauser.com
@artichokeheart.bsky.social
(she/they) Biracial Nisei. Poet and writer. Editor. EIC South Dakota Review. Lover of cats and mollusks.
@bczyzykwrites.bsky.social
Poet | Editor | PhD Candidate | Mitten Man in Cowboy Country | Words in Poetry Magazine, Ninth Letter, Gulf Coast, and more | he/him 💖💜💙